Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.10
By Orkhan Guluzade – Trend:
Turkey has announced a recruitment of candidates for police service, Sabah newspaper quoted the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu as saying Sept.10.
He said that 20,000 people will be selected for the police service and 10,000 of them will serve in the police special forces.
Currently, around 276,000 policemen serve in the structures of Turkey’s Interior Ministry.
In total, more than 7,000 policemen were dismissed in Turkey as part of the fight against the movement of Fethullah Gulen who is accused of being involved in the military coup attempt in the country.
On July 15 evening, Turkish authorities said a military coup attempt took place in the country. Meanwhile, a group of servicemen announced about transition of power to them. However, the rebelling servicemen started to surrender July 16 and Turkish authorities said the coup attempt failed.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said the death toll as a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246, excluding the coup plotters, and more than 2,000 people were wounded. Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in Turkey on July 20.
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